Back before the explosion of the higher ed sector, starting with the Higher Education Act of 1965, most professors had a teaching load of four classes per semester, meeting four h ...

Harvard pushed to increase the course load of non-tenure-track faculty at a bargaining session last Friday, escalating tensions with the union’s thousands of members as the negotiations drag into ...

Graduate students at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences who teach more courses than required for their degree programs no longer receive additional compensation under a policy that ...

This document outlines teaching load, course buyout, and teaching appointment policies for tenured (T), tenure-track (TT), and teaching faculty at the Boulder campus in the Paul M. Rady Department of ...

Carthage College’s full-time faculty members have overwhelmingly censured their president, John R. Swallow, and their provost/executive vice president for operations, David Timmerman, for increasing ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Michael Nietzel, former college president, writes on higher education Their “American Higher Education Restoration Act” takes aim ...

On the one hand, this piece about colleges asking professors to up their teaching loads as a result of budget could be a simple result of contract ambiguity. The first professor in the story claims ...